{"id":8,"date":"2009-11-22T11:12:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:44:15","slug":"howto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/howto","title":{"rendered":"How to play Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup in a web browser, <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/play.htm\">choose a server automatically based on location<\/a>, or choose a WebTiles-enabled server from the <a href=\"#servers\">list below<\/a>. For many servers, it is also possible to play in console mode over a SSH connection; for information on how to set this up, see the <a href=\"#connecting\">instructions below<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advantages of online play:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can access and continue your game from where ever you are currently located (home, work, vacation, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Your games, scores, deaths and wins will be recorded and parsed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/scoring\/overview.html\">official statistic<\/a> tools and bots.<\/li>\n<li>Once connected to a server you can watch and learn from other players playing or get hints from players watching you.<\/li>\n<li>You will have the chance to meet ghosts of other dead players.<\/li>\n<li>Playing online allows you to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/category\/tournament\">release tournaments<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"servers\">The Servers<\/h1>\n<p>There are a number of servers offering online play &#8211; each located in a different part of the world, often serving more than only the latest released version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. You should choose a server closest to your location to have a fast connection with as little delay as possible. Accounts are not shared between servers, however scoring is aggregated by account name on <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/scoring\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">CAO Scoring<\/a>\u00a0and at <a href=\"https:\/\/dcss-stats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dcss-stats.com<\/a>. Note: If you&#8217;re concerned about accurate score tracking for your account, it&#8217;s best to register your account name on <em>every<\/em> server below!<\/p>\n<h2>Americas<\/h2>\n<h3>crawl.akrasiac.org (WebTiles, Console)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org:8443\/\" target=\"_blank\">CAO<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>Arizona, United States of America<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong> and a number of <strong>previous<\/strong> versions of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>It also serves the latest development version and is updated daily.<\/li>\n<li>Console play via SSH (port 22): username &#8220;joshua&#8221; &#8211; password &#8220;joshua&#8221; or <em>SSH-key<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key.ppk\" target=\"_blank\">PuTTY key<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key\" target=\"_blank\">Unix key<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Graphical play via WebSocket: <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org:8443\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebTiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>cbro.beRotato.org (WebTiles, Console)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <strong><a title=\"CBRO\" href=\"https:\/\/cbro.berotato.org:8443\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBR2<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>Ohio, USA<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong> version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>It also serves the latest development version and updates daily at around 0710 UTC.<\/li>\n<li>Console play via SSH (port 22): username &#8220;crawler&#8221; &#8211; <em>SSH-key required<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cbro.berotato.org\/keys\/cbro_key.ppk\" target=\"_blank\">PuTTY key<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cbro.berotato.org\/keys\/cbro_key\" target=\"_blank\">Unix key<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Graphical play via WebSocket: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbro.berotato.org:8443\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebTiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>crawl.dcss.io (WebTiles, Console)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.dcss.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">CDI<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>New York, United States of America<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong> and a number of <strong>previous<\/strong> versions of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>It also serves the latest development version and is updated every 15 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Console play via SSH (port 22): username &#8220;crawl&#8221; &#8211; required\u00a0<em>SSH-key<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.dcss.io\/crawl\/cao_key.ppk\" target=\"_blank\">PuTTY key<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.dcss.io\/crawl\/cao_key\" target=\"_blank\">Unix key<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Graphical play via WebSocket: <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.dcss.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebTiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>crawl.roguelikes.gg (WebTiles, Console)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <strong><a title=\"CBRG\" href=\"https:\/\/crawl.roguelikes.gg\/\" target=\"_blank\">CRG<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>Oregon, USA<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong> version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>It also serves the latest development version and updates daily at around 0600 UTC.<\/li>\n<li>Console play via SSH (port <strong>222<\/strong>): username &#8220;crawl&#8221; &#8211; <em>SSH-key required<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cbro.berotato.org\/keys\/cbro_key.ppk\" target=\"_blank\">PuTTY key<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cbro.berotato.org\/keys\/cbro_key\" target=\"_blank\">Unix key<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Graphical play via WebSocket: <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.roguelikes.gg\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebTiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>crawl-br.roguelikes.gg (WebTiles, Console)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <strong><a title=\"CBRG\" href=\"https:\/\/crawl-br.roguelikes.gg\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBRG<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong> version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>It also serves the latest development version and updates daily at around 0600 UTC.<\/li>\n<li>Console play via SSH (port <strong>222<\/strong>): username &#8220;crawl&#8221; &#8211; <em>SSH-key required<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cbro.berotato.org\/keys\/cbro_key.ppk\" target=\"_blank\">PuTTY key<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cbro.berotato.org\/keys\/cbro_key\" target=\"_blank\">Unix key<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Graphical play via WebSocket: <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl-br.roguelikes.gg\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebTiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Europe<\/h2>\n<h3>crawl.develz.org (Console)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CDO<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>Nuremberg, Germany<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong> and a number of <strong>previous<\/strong> versions of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>It also serves the latest development version and is updated daily.<\/li>\n<li>It additionally serves the last beta of the original Dungeon Crawl.<\/li>\n<li>Console play via SSH (port 22): username &#8220;crawl&#8221; &#8211; <em>SSH-key required<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/cao_key.ppk\" target=\"_blank\">PuTTY key<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/cao_key\" target=\"_blank\">Unix key<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>WebTiles is not available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>crawl.xtahua.com (WebTiles, Console)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <a title=\"CXC\" href=\"https:\/\/crawl.xtahua.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CXC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>France<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong> and the <strong>previous<\/strong> version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>It also serves the latest development version and is updated daily.<\/li>\n<li>Console play via SSH (port 22): username &#8220;crawl&#8221; &#8211; <em>SSH-key required<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key.ppk\" target=\"_blank\">PuTTY key<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key\" target=\"_blank\">Unix key<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Graphical play via WebSocket: <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.xtahua.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebTiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>underhound.eu (WebTiles, Console)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/underhound.eu:8080\/\" target=\"_blank\">CUE<\/a><\/strong> (formerly known as CLAN).<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong> and the <strong>previous<\/strong> version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>It also serves the latest development version and is updated daily.<\/li>\n<li>Console play via SSH (port 23): username &#8220;terminal&#8221; &#8211; password &#8220;terminal&#8221; or <em>SSH-key<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key.ppk\" target=\"_blank\">PuTTY key<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key\" target=\"_blank\">Unix key<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Graphical play via WebSocket: <a href=\"https:\/\/underhound.eu:8080\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebTiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Asia<\/h2>\n<h3>crawl.nemelex.cards (WebTiles)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <a title=\"CNC\" href=\"https:\/\/crawl.nemelex.cards\/#lobby\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CNC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>Gyeonggi, South Korea<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong> and a number of <strong>previous<\/strong> versions of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>It also serves the latest development version and is updated every 15 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Console play via SSH (port 1326): username &#8220;nemelex&#8221; &#8211; password &#8220;xobeh&#8221; or <em>SSH-key<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key.ppk\" target=\"_blank\">PuTTY key<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key\" target=\"_blank\">Unix key<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Graphical play via WebSocket: <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.nemelex.cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebTiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>lazy-life.ddo.jp (WebTiles)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <a title=\"LLD\" href=\"http:\/\/lazy-life.ddo.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>LLD<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>Japan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong>\u00a0version\u00a0of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>Console play is not supported.<\/li>\n<li>Graphical play via WebSocket: <a href=\"http:\/\/lazy-life.ddo.jp:8080\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebTiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Oceania<\/h2>\n<h3>crawl.project357.org (WebTiles)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as <a title=\"CPO\" href=\"https:\/\/crawl.project357.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CPO<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>Sydney, Australia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It serves the latest <strong>released<\/strong> version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.<\/li>\n<li>It also serves the latest development version and is updated every 15 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Console play is not supported.<\/li>\n<li>Graphical play via WebSocket: <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.project357.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebTiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"connecting\">Connecting to DCSS servers<\/h1>\n<p>To play in the recommended graphical mode, you just need to point your web browser at one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/play.htm\">WebTiles<\/a>\u00a0links above. It requires modern\u00a0web browser with WebSocket and JavaScript support enabled.<\/p>\n<p>To play in terminal mode on one of these servers, you need an <em>SSH<\/em> program. The programs are available in many different forms and commonly used to log into a remote server and receive a shell. The next sections explain in more detail how to play terminal mode via SSH.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting to one of the servers mentioned above presents you with a menu to register your character&#8217;s name and then lets you choose the game you would like to play, even modify your game configuration or backup your save-game.<\/p>\n<h2>Using SSH on Windows-based operating systems<\/h2>\n<p>We suggest to download the open-source program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~sgtatham\/putty\/\">PuTTY<\/a> or its feature-enhanced sister <a href=\"http:\/\/haanstra.eu\/putty\/\">PuTTYtray<\/a>, both capable of doing SSH connections.<\/p>\n<p>Once Putty starts up you will see a configuration dialog. Simply put in the host name of the server you desire to play on and choose the SSH connection type.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1164\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1164\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1164     \" title=\"Putty Session CAO\" src=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_session.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_session.png 456w, https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_session-175x48.png 175w, https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_session-355x98.png 355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connect via SSH to CAO. Username and Password: joshua<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If using an SSH key, you must go to <strong>Connection <\/strong>&gt; <strong>SSH <\/strong>&gt; <strong>Auth<\/strong>\u00a0and set the private key file:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1160\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1160\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1160  \" title=\"Putty SSH-Key Setting\" src=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_cao_key.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_cao_key.png 456w, https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_cao_key-175x41.png 175w, https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_cao_key-355x83.png 355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Setting SSH-Key in Putty<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Click <strong>Open<\/strong>\u00a0at the bottom to start the connection. If not using a key, you&#8217;ll be prompted for a username and password.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>Session<\/strong>\u00a0configuration, you can enter a session name in the box under Saved Sessions and click <strong>Save<\/strong>\u00a0to store your session information for future connections. The next time you start PuTTY, selection your session and click the <strong>Load<\/strong>\u00a0button to load your session data before clicking <strong>Open<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.17em;\">Other recommended settings<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are some other settings we recommend changing from the default. The first is important to properly enable extended console colors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Data<\/strong>\u00a0&gt; Terminal-type string &gt; set value to xterm-256color\n<p><div id=\"attachment_5109\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5109\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5109\" title=\"Set Terminal-type string\" src=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/putty-xterm1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/putty-xterm1.png 461w, https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/putty-xterm1-175x48.png 175w, https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/putty-xterm1-355x98.png 355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Set Terminal-type string to xterm-256color<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you intend to play with the numeric keypad there are 2 important settings you should enable in Putty to have proper controlling:<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Terminal<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Keyboard<\/strong>&gt; Initial state of numeric keypad &gt;\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1162\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1162\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1162   \" title=\"Putty Keyboard Nethack\" src=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_keyboard_nethack.png\" alt=\"Setting Numeric Keypad to Nethack\" width=\"456\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_keyboard_nethack.png 456w, https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_keyboard_nethack-175x37.png 175w, https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_keyboard_nethack-355x75.png 355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Setting Numeric Keypad to Nethack<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><strong>Terminal<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Features<\/strong>&gt; Advanced terminal features &gt;\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1161\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1161\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1161  \" title=\"Putty Keyboard Application Keypad\" src=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_keyboard_application_keypad.png\" alt=\"Disable Application Keypad Mode\" width=\"456\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_keyboard_application_keypad.png 456w, https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_keyboard_application_keypad-175x39.png 175w, https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_keyboard_application_keypad-355x79.png 355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disable Application Keypad Mode<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may want to change the effect of the mouse buttons to prevent accidentally pasting your clipboard into the game:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Window <\/strong>&gt; <strong>Selection<\/strong>&gt; Action of mouse buttons &gt;\n<p><div style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Windows-style Mouse Buttons\" src=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/putty_mouse_control.png\" alt=\"Windows-style Mouse Buttons\" width=\"456\" height=\"84\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows-style Mouse Buttons<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Otherwise, the default configuration of Putty is quite OK. You may want to choose a different font like &#8220;Lucida Console&#8221;, &#8220;Consolas&#8221;, &#8220;Courier New&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dejavu-fonts.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">Dejavu Mono<\/a>&#8221; by going to\u00a0<strong>Window <\/strong>&gt; <strong>Appearence<\/strong>\u00a0 and clicking the <strong>Change<\/strong>\u00a0button under Font settings.<\/p>\n<h2>Using SSH on Unix-based operating systems<\/h2>\n<p>The SSH client was probably installed automatically for you. Nevertheless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~sgtatham\/putty\/\">PuTTY<\/a> may also be available for your distribution. Connecting is as easy as typing <code>ssh -C -l &lt;username&gt; &lt;server name&gt;<\/code>. The following examples should answer any questions:<\/p>\n<p>To connect to CAO the following 2 ways are possible.<br \/>\nSSH without key will prompt you for the password &#8220;joshua&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ssh -C -l joshua crawl.akrasiac.org<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SSH with <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key\">SSH-key<\/a> authentication will log you on without a password prompt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>wget http:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key<br \/>\nchmod 400 cao_key<br \/>\nssh -C -i cao_key -l joshua crawl.akrasiac.org<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You must authenticate via <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key\">SSH-key<\/a> if you intend to play via SSH on most other servers CDO:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>wget https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key<br \/>\nchmod 400 cao_key<br \/>\nssh -C -i cao_key -l crawl crawl.develz.org<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alternatively, when using SSH you can give the parameters via configuration file and then just run <code>ssh &lt;alias&gt;<\/code> instead. <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.dcss.io\/crawl\/config\">Here<\/a> is an example SSH config file along with commands to save this config as <code>~\/.ssh\/config<\/code> and download the CAO key. Make sure the path to the <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key\">SSH-key<\/a> is correctly specified:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>mkdir -p ~\/.ssh<br \/>\nwget https:\/\/crawl.dcss.io\/crawl\/config -P ~\/.ssh<br \/>\nwget https:\/\/crawl.akrasiac.org\/cao_key -P ~\/.ssh<br \/>\nchmod 400 ~\/.ssh\/cao_key<br \/>\nssh cao<br \/>\nssh cdo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup in a web browser, choose a server automatically based on location, or choose a WebTiles-enabled server from the list below. For many servers, it is also possible to play in console mode over a SSH connection; for information on how to set this up, see the instructions below. Advantages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":176,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}